I don’t think you’re a Christian. I do think you want Christianity to have a chance in hell, because… well, I’m not going to speculate. Meta-contrarianism would be one reason. Everyone voting down shminux, please note that they never said they thought Goetz was a Christian.
Everyone voting down shminux, please also note that they did say:
You clearly want Christianity to have a chance in hell
it is pointless to argue about it with you, since you have already written your bottom line and will not budge
I’ll downvote for those. While I don’t claim Goetz’ treatment of the topic to have been perfect, I don’t see evidence of it necessarily having been motivated by anything else than an honest curious interest in the topic. Claims that he clearly wants Christianity to have a chance or that he wouldn’t be able to change his mind on the topic seem to me to be just as uncalled for as claims that he would be a Christian.
There was definite evidence of this. As I pointed out in my reply the specific numbers picked looked a lot like what one would expect if one had a conscious or unconscious desire for the argument to just barely go through.
You are probably correct that, taken out of the poster’s profile context, one might not
see evidence of it necessarily having been motivated by anything else than an honest curious interest in the topic.
I have my doubts, but in retrospect it looks like my emotions got the better of me, and I concede that my original reply was less neutral than called for. Hey, I’m still new to this rationality thing.
I don’t think you’re a Christian. I do think you want Christianity to have a chance in hell, because… well, I’m not going to speculate. Meta-contrarianism would be one reason. Everyone voting down shminux, please note that they never said they thought Goetz was a Christian.
Everyone voting down shminux, please also note that they did say:
I’ll downvote for those. While I don’t claim Goetz’ treatment of the topic to have been perfect, I don’t see evidence of it necessarily having been motivated by anything else than an honest curious interest in the topic. Claims that he clearly wants Christianity to have a chance or that he wouldn’t be able to change his mind on the topic seem to me to be just as uncalled for as claims that he would be a Christian.
There was definite evidence of this. As I pointed out in my reply the specific numbers picked looked a lot like what one would expect if one had a conscious or unconscious desire for the argument to just barely go through.
You are probably correct that, taken out of the poster’s profile context, one might not
I have my doubts, but in retrospect it looks like my emotions got the better of me, and I concede that my original reply was less neutral than called for. Hey, I’m still new to this rationality thing.